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SYNOPSIS.
Burton H. Barnes, a wealthy American
tourinff Corsica, rescues the young Eng
4sh lieutenant, Edward Gerard Anstruth
?r. and his Corsican bride, Marina,
daughter of the PaoI!s,- from the mur
derous vendetta, understanding that his
reward is to be the hand of the girl he
!o-s, Enid Anstruther, sister of the Eng
lish lieutenant. The four fly from AJae--lo
to Marseilles on board the French
teamer Constantine. The vendetta pur
sues "and as the quartet are about to
liaard the train for London at Marseilles.
"Marina is handed a mysterious note
a Viiii .naoa hoi- tn rnii:inf nil necessi
tates a postponement of the journey. I
t?x.i&e nnil f7nld a rA cmflrriwl. Soon I
after their wedding Barnes bride dis
ippears. Barnes- discovers she has
been kidnaped and taken to Corsica.
The groom secures a Ashing vessel and
is about to start In pursuit of his bride's
captors when he hears a scream from
the villa and rushes back to hear that
Anstruther's wife, Marina. Is also miss
ing. Barnes 'is compelled to depart for
Corsica without delay, and so he loaves
the searcli for Marina to her husband
while he goes. to hunt for Enid. Just be
fore Barnes .boat lands on Corsica's
shore Marina Is discovered hiding in a
corner of the vessel. She explains her
action by saying she has come to help
Barnes rescue his wife from the Corsl-
cans. When Barnes ana Manna arne
In Corsica he is given a note written Dy
Enid Informing him that the kidnaping
is for the purpose of entrapping Barnes
r.o the vendetta may kill him. Barnes
and Marina have unusual adventures in
their search for Enid. They come In
sight of her and her captors In the Corsl
can mountain wilds Just as the night ap
proaches. In "seeking shelter from a
;tgrn the couple enter a hermitage and
lucre to their amazement they discover
Tomasso. the foster father of Marina,
who was supposed to have been killed by
De Belloc's sejdigrs, and Jsr whose death
Barnes had been vendettaed. Tomasso
learns that Marina's husband did not
kill her brother. Many wrongs are right
ed. Barnes is surprised in the hermitage
by Rochlni and Romano, the two detest
ed bandits, who had been searching for
him to murder him for his money. The
bandits attempt to take away Marina.
.Barnes darts out the door. The bandits
start to pursue, but as they reach the
door both are laid low by Barnes' revol
ver. Members of the Bellacoscia enter
and Barnes is honored for his great serv
ice to the community in killing the hated
Rochlni and Romano. The release of
Enid is promised. Barnes is conveyed In
triumph to Bocognano. Marina acquaints
the Bellacoscia with Sallcetl's plot
ugainst her husband and the people are
Instructed to vote against him at the
i-omlng election. Barnes is taken to the
mansion of the Paolis to meet Enid.
Marina receives a telegram. She starts
for Bastia to meet her husband.. Enter
ing the room to greet his wife Barnes is
bewildered to And the adventuress La
Belle Blackwood, but not Enid. She had
been substituted for the American's bride
by a shrewd plot. Ueut. Anstruther ar
rives to find Marina and learns that she
has been lured away by the telegram
which had been sent by another without
his knowledge The two start In search of
Marina. Barnes and Edwin take different
roads in their search. Edwin is trapped
in a tower where he Is made prisoner. In
endeavoring to escape he opens a- trap
door where he finds Emory, the detec
tive, who had been imprisoned there pre
viously. CHAPTER XVI. Continued.
"Oh, hang it, what have they done
to you. smarty?" growls the detective
angrily. Then he cries: "Glory halle
lujah! Bully for you!" for Edwin has
run down the ladder and is busy try
ing to unloosen the irons from the
American's legs.
"They've got keys somewhere,"
snarls Emory. "Hang it, think of theirj
cheek, manacling a detective."
Edwin is up the ladder again. He
strikes another match and on the
ground story finds, after some little de
lay, a bunch of keys hanging on the
wall.
After some trouble with the locks,
which are rusty, Elijah's legs are re
leased and he ascends with Edwin, his
jaws almost snapping with rage as he
tells his wrongs.
"I was playing the fisherman at St.
Tropez," he says. "I .had got onto
them, all right. I knew the head devil,
the elder man, Cipriano, when, like a
fool, I went on board of that big,
cursed fishing felucca to them, pre
tending to want to get a job, thinking
I would find out what the devil they
were driving at That was the end of
me. I hadn't more than got In the
forecastle than I was covered with two
long knives, and that scar-faced fel
low said to me: 'The first time, you
were warned to keep out of this affair.
This is the second time They were
savage enough to kill me, but they
simply corded me up and threw me in
the hold, and oh, what a time I had as
their infernal vessel dashed about the
Mediterranean after you. When they
gave up chasing you they stopped
here and put me away carefully in
that hole down there."
Suddenly he cries: "What are you
doing?" for Edwin has his bands in an
iron ring and is trying to pull up an
other trap door in the flooring.
"I want tools by which we can break
enough masonry from one of these
embrasures to get out!" says the
sailor.
But pulling up the trap door, both he
and the American gaze astounded into
the other vault
Two red flaming -eyes .encounter
theirs. "If you come to kill me, I'll die
like a Corsican, my teeth in your
throat!" cries a low, -hoarse voice.
Then as Anstruther lights' another
match, a shriek rises' to them: "The
husband of Marina, Madre di Dio!"
"Tomasso!" exclaims -Edwin, add
ing: "In Qod's name where is my
wife?" i
"Diavolo, of course. -yon have come
here-to-find her. At the fork of the
Bastia road: -I 'thought" the -Lucchese'-
captured my mistress and myself and
forced us to drive toward the east
Coming over, the mountains, their lan
guage told me they were not Luch
chese.' but Corsicans. I would have
told Marina, but when J 'got out to
water the horses at, the little fountain
up near Piejra! two of .them strock me
insensible1 and I awokeaad found my
self here. But, Signorel beg, you to
note one thing. Your true Wife and
ray honored mistress believes she was
.rescued from 'the 'Luccheso' by Cipri
ano Danella, and she is grateful to
him. Get 'me to the light that I may
aid you." The" old Corsican has faint
ly staggered up; a moment later he is
pulled-' from .the- vault by -the strong
hands of Anstruther and the detective.
'"This .islold Tomasso MonaWi," says
Edwia shortly; "who was supposed "to
be killed." i
"Holy smoke, the fellow ih6 'was
tsanejaf7: y&or
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But Tomasso's words make them
feel they have little time to lose. Be
sides, Emory is always whispering
with white lips: -This tower Is
mined!" Together they go up the
stairs, carefully examining every ori
fice in the building, but find them all
loopholes too small to permit the exit
of a man,"
"There is nothing ..but to get out of
the upper chamber," says Edwin. "I'm
a sailor. With half a chance, a single
vine," with even the assistance of our
clothes torn into lengths, I can scram
ble down. Some way I'll do it"
They have reached the upper room.
Anstruther has thrown off his coat
and ve'st, kicked off his shoes and
taken off his stockings. Toes will
cling to the rough stonework better
than boots. He picks up the letter
and the concluding sentences seem to
make him crazy. He springs to the
window and a muttered oath parts his
white lips, for he encounters a grillage
of heavy iron so securely fastened on
the outside that it is impossible for
him to make exit.
But even as Edwin struggles with
the grating, he utters a low cry; half
of longing, half of despair.
Upon the portico of the modern por
tion of the farmhouse, pleasant with
vines and flowers, almosT reclining in
a hammock is Marina. Robed in
white, the young wife looks like a
dream of love to her despairing hus
band. Her face is flushed, if not hap-
This Glorious Orezza Water
plly, at least excitedly. To.her, speak
ing the distance Is too great for Ed
win to understand the words, but ap
parently from the gestures they are
those of amity is Count Cipriano Da
nella. his eyes sparkling vivaciously,
his costume the romantic one of Cor
sica. CHAPTER XVII.
Whiffs in the Air.
Some time after midday, Mr. Barnes,
in . pursuit of Anstruther, reaches
Ponte-alla-Lecchia, where the people
arc now, crowding about the polling
house. He doesn't stop here and con
tinues rapidly on, notwithstanding the
sun is very hot, the dust is very heavy.
As he climbs the high hills toward Mo
rosaglia, he commences to find cycla
men flowers, quite faded now and hav
ing but little perfume.
"By Jove," he remarks, "I gave Ed
win the right path. I should have
turned back and followed him last
night, not to-day."
This makes him hurry all the more,
and his horse if quite exhausted when
he descends the hill past the convent
-and pauses at the little inn near the
famous water "of Orezza.
The American has heard of their
curious powers,' and asks for some, as
he gazes languidly oa the communal
of the little village, around which the
'men are still clustering.
'The heat has been tremendous; his
speed has been quite 'great; the hills
have been precipitous. Barnes, face is
again covered with lines of fatigue.
3 'This glorious Orezza water will
make you a new -man," chats the land
lprd pleasantly; and never had the
wondrous youth-giving chalybeate a
better patient to work upon, for as the
effervescent flaid. cold "from the
springs of thee mountain; flies down
the American's throat, ;new power,
new vigor seem to enter each nerve,
each limb. . . .
It is now quite late In' the afternoon.
Burton soon passes the chestnut lands
of La Castagnicda, 'still finding a few
faded eyclamen blooms to guide Mm
oh 'his way. 'But bow a little shock
thrills him. He checks his horse ab
ruptly, springs off and picks up a
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ralomg examining K he ejacmlates:
"This is very extraordiaary. This
branch, which I supposed Marina drop
ped oat of the carriage" yesterday, was
certainly cut thia very fecming.".
SH3Bcib fashes thresh htas arh
questions: "Can these flowers, have
been strewn in the road by Clprlano's
agents to lead someone on?" and what
had been no warning to the easy-going
sailor becomes a danger signal to the
man of the world.
Yet, twist it how he willBarnes can
see, no reason why Danella should
want anyone near him save Marina.
If the Corsican's passion . for that
young lady is what he thinks it is, he
will prefer a free hand to deal with
her alone. "And yet it is evident some
body 'wanted somebody to follow 'this
cyclamen trail, and whether somebody
f wants it or not, I am here anyway,"
thinks the American grimly. "And
thanks to the divine Orezza water, I
am rather fit for fighting." Then care
fully examining his revolver, the pistol
shot remarks: "And that's fit also,
thank God."
With this, resolutely but more cir
cumspectly, Mr. Barnes continues his
way over the path marked by 'the cyc
lamen branches.
By the time be has come out on the
hills looking down toward the Tuscan
sea, it is very dark. There is no moon
yet, but the light from the lone watch
tower attracts him. The cyclamen
flowers he occasionally picks up make
him know" this is the road Anstruther
must have traveled.
Suddenly, but quietly, he turns his
horse from the path, and in the seclu
sion of a thicket of wild grapes, lis
tens. Some dozen men are coming
from the east; he hears one of them
growl: "Why, there's no 'Lucchese'
nearer than Pietra to fight, though the
count ordered every man about the
farm to go out and protect the vines
from them."
"Well, there's some good reason for
.Maestro Clpriano's orders. Perchance
the Italian laborers in the Green Orez
za quarry have risen up," adds an
other. "Perhaps with the lady he wishes
not to be disturbed," giggles a third
Will Make You a New Man.
"The count has musicians in a boat off
the shore."
The men have no sooner passed
than Barnes starts quickly down the
road. The "lady," he guesses, means
either Marina or his own bride, though
of the last he has slight'hope. A sub
dued light from the town guides him
in the darkness.
But when he is within less than a
hundred yards of the building, his
horse, with a sudden snort of terror,
draws up right in the path, crouching
on his haunches, and Barnes peering
over his steed's head, gazes into the
deep chasm that descends sheer to the
very sea. Springing from his trem
bling horse, th'e American finds that
the bridge, which is a light, swinging
one not over 35 feet in length, has
been swung to the other side.
The scent of a. fresh cyclamen bloom
enters his nostrils. He looks at the
removed bridge and remarks acutely:
"It's evident Cipriano has got on the
other side the person; he wished to fol
low these flowers."
So Barnes gazes across the chasm.
he cannot pass. The night -being very
still, he hears over the soft murmur
of the waves beneath him the sweet
romantic music of Corsica rising from
a boat: 'Tis the playing of stringed in
struments accompanying a sweet na
tive love song, each stanza ending in
that curious "prolonged note .peculiar
to these island ditties. .
"What the .deuce is that bizarre,
crafty devil's game?" wonders "the
American. Then he hears votces'from
the low.Corsican house. Beyead the'
crevices he sees Marina in white robe
amid the lights and flowers of the
veranda. Her sweet tones are scarce
audible. .Then Danella's voice reaches
him faintly in the soft night air.
" He begins- to understand and' mut
bunch of the wOd lowers. ;A he rldea
ters: "Good God!".
After a little cry of love yet despair
rends the heavens from the tower. It
is Anstruther's. . 'Tie mingled with a
woman's shriek for mercy. "My hus
band!" in Marina's voice.
Next Barnes hears Cipriano's. suave,
triumphant laugh, and .he mutters:
"My God, for a pistol it'sa fearfully
long shot, but It's the oary'wayf
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
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SERMONETTE.
.
True "piety finds its expres
sion In genuine' hospitality.-
Doors opened to admit the
faithful servants of" the Lord
let in the .blessing of God as
well.
To give to supply the need of
one who is engaged in God's
work is to give to the Lord and
such giving never goes without
its reward.
God can find shelter and food
for his servants in most unex
pected places.
The entertainment of this
plain, unassuming prophet, pocr
and despised, except to the few
in Israel who were faithful to
God, was not going to bring so
cial prestige to this Shunammite.
woman, in fact her hospitality
perhaps was going to cost her
the regard of many of the "swell
set" of Shunem. But enough of
the light of righteousness and
truth had shined into her heart
to make her understand that
there was more honor in enter
taining one of the humble ser
vants ef God than in filling her
house with a choice company of
her rich neighbors.
To-day we need to learn the
joy and blessing of true hospi
tality. "When thou makest a
dinner or supper," said Jesus,
"call not thy friends, nor thy
brethren, neither thy kinsmen,
nor thy rich neighbors, lest
they also bid thee again and a
recompense be made thee. But
when thou makest a feast, call
the poor, the maimed, the lame,
the blind; and thou shalt be
blessed; for they cannot recom
pense thee; for thou shalt be
recompensed at the resurrec
tion of the just"
The good heart is sensitive to
goodness in others. This Shu
nammite woman "perceived that
Elisha was a holy man."
The good heart also delights
in fellowship with goodness. It
was a real joy and privilege for
this Shunammite woman to re
ceive the spiritual blessing
whiph Elisha the prophet was
able to bring to her and her hus
band. If this Shunammite woman
had been absorbed in the latest
fashion plates, or been gadding
about to afternoon card parties
and social teas, or the matinee,
she never would have had eyes
to see this man of God as he
passed to and fro by her home.
This Shunammite woman
never dreamed that her kindly
service was to bring to her the
treasure for which her heart
longed most. And yet is it not
a literal fulfillment of the dec
laration of Scripture thai if we
"seek first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, all these
things shall be added unto us?"
THE STORY.
THERE was a certain woman of
Shunem in the land of Israel who,
as Scripture says, was great great as
concerned the possession of this
world's goods; great as to abilities,
for she was a wise woman and ordered
the affairs of her husband's home
after the most careful manner of the
eastern housewife; great as to her
womanly virtues, and the kindly deeds
which she was constantly performing
for her neighbors and friends; great
as to her piety; but, above all, great
in the burden of sorrow which rested
upon her heart a sorrow which she
hid from her husband and the world,
a sorrow which when It strikes deep
into a woman's heart is greater than
any sorrow which a woman may know
the sorrow of a childless home.
When as a bride she had come to
take her place in the splendid home
which her husband bad provided for
her it had been with the joyful thought
that children would come to bless and
make bright the home. To her, as
with all women in that eastern land,
the childless home was a reproach
and the crowning honor of wifehood
was motherhood. But all through the
long years of her wedded life this joy
and blessing had been denied her, and
it seemed as though her heart must
break with the burden ofjts grief.
Her husband, conscious of the
yearning of her heart for bravely as
she tried she could not hide it alto
gether from his fond, loving eyes
sought tenderly to be not only hus
band but son to her, and tried to fill
'her. life with activities and pleasures
which would take her mind from her
grief. And she being too true a wom
an to be swallowed up of her sorrow,
found relief in the performance of
kindly deeds which endeared her to
name great in Shunem. . Bs
Now it cnancea one day as she went
about her gentle ministeries that an
errand of mercy took her to the" other
side of town, where a widow -woman
.and her three children dwelt in pov
erty. In passing through the market
place she observed a solitary figure
sitting in a secluded spot. His cloak
or mantle was drawn, closely around
him, but from without the folds of the,
garment'- which enveloped his 'head
there looked a strong face,, whose
penetrating oj-e seemed .to take in
every detail and movement cf the
busyplace. Knots of people .gathered
here and there talked in low tones
and the furtive 'glances which were
cast in the direction of the silent fig
ure indicated plainly that it was the
stranger who .was the subject of con
versatioc. But no one, moved by,
friendly impulse, seemed inclined to
speak a kJndly word of greeting to ths
tt
straager or hid him welcome. 'AH-this I
the woman acted "and thea, aa- she
passed tt cms a -r 'way, she jbwv'c
man emerge from-oae'df' the booth
of the market place bearing hi his
hands some of the barley 'caked he
had purchased there. These he placed
In the hands of the' silent Jgare who
rose to receive thenar
"Evidently- the servant -of the
stranger," the woman thought to her
self as she watched the" two pass on'
their way; eating their frugal repast
aa they went
"Have they .no friends?" she asked,
herself, "that they thus come to Shu
nem and depart without anyone ask
ing, 'whence comest thou? of whither
goest thou?' It was a .goodly face
which. the stranger had," she contin
ued to herself as she went on her
way. "Who can he be?"
To this last question which arosi tn
her mind came a partial answer that
day as she visited the widow, for ah
found that the latter, while out pick
ing up sticks-with which to make a
fire oyer which to cook the little cakes
of oil- and meal for herself and her
children had met this stranger and his
servant, and' he had spoken euch
words of encouragement and blessing
to her that she bad been greatly
helped, and finding that she was of
a branch of the tribe of Levi, he bad
promised to see that her son was en
tered in one of the schools of the
prophets, where hecould prepare for
the priestly service.
From that time on the Shunammite
woman watched for tidings of this
stranger, and over the pathway which
be had passed she found many a poor
and humble one to tell of the deed3
of kindness which ho had shown .them
as he had passed by.
So it came to pass one day that as
she beheld the man and his servant
passing by her own home she went
forth to meet him and constrained
him to tarry and refresh himself after
his long and wearisome journey. This
he did and, as many an one has found
since then, she came to know that the
entertaining of one of God's servants
brought blessing upon her-household.
She had a great yearning for good
ness and her greatest delight was to
sit under the teaching of the prophet
Elisha and receive from his hands that
spiritual teaching which she needed.
This feeling her husband came to
share with her, and there was no more
welcome guest in any home in all the
land of Israel, not even the king him
self, than was the prophet Elisha Tn
the home qf this Shunammite woman
and her husband.
But goodness and kindly service'
never go unrewarded by God, and it
came to pass as the prophet came and
went the longing grew upon him to
pour some special blessing into the
life of this home whose hospitality he
bad enjoyed.
"What shall it be?" he asked his
servant Gehazi, with whom one day
he talked the matter over. "Would
they that I should speak to the king
that he shew them kindness, or to the
captain of the hosts of Israel?"
"Nay, not that, my master," ex
claimed Gehazi, "for they dwell in se
curity and plenty in their own land
in Shunem. But verily she hath no
child."
"Lo, children are an heritage of the
Lord; and the fruit of the womb is his
reward," exclaimed the prophet, quot
ing the words of the Psalmist. "It
shall indeed be so in this case."
A full year has passed since Elisha's
last visit to Shunem, for service in
other parts of the kingdom have kept
him busy, but one day he turns his
steps thither, accompanied by his ser
vant, Gehazi.
"Let us go up, for this Shunammite
woman rejoiceth in a son," he ex
claimed. "She hath shewn great
kindness unto others, and God hath
rewarded her in accordance with his
word. Let us carry God's blessing
up to the child."
And Elisha found it even in accord
ance with the word he had spoken,
and the mother greeted him with
words of rejoicing, saying:
"The Lord bath made me to rejoice,
for he hath taken away my reproach
and hath given me a son."
"May the Lord ever keep thee
faithful to the sacred mission ol
motherhood," responded the prophet,
fervidly.
The Beardless Man.
There is a so-called "smooth-shaven"
millionaire in New York who never
used a razor on his face. Twenty,
five years ago he was a monomaniac
on the subject of saving time, and
among other short cuts to fortune
made up his mind to cut out shaving,
a matter of 15 cents a day and about
20 minutes of precious time, if the
barber made good. After a trial of
various cosmetics and delipatories he
decided that electrolysis was a far bet
ter, though a more tedious, process.
In-five months the root of every hair
in both beard and mustache was ut
terly destroyed by an electric current
from a constant battery. The man
suffered considerably, but ever since
the operation his face has been as
smooth as a bald head. No power oa
earth could restore his beard now.
How He Did the Trick.
A -driver on the Avontuur railway,
South Africa, .while staying at the
Gamtoos, caught a large cobra de ca
pello alive. The cool way In which he
did 'the trick (says a local paper) sent"
a cold shiver through every one who
saw it He simply caught hold of the
point of its tail, gave it a sudden Jerk
toward 'him and caught it by the back
of the head. He then placed it in a
biscuit tin. The snake was three
inches in diameter and about four feet
long.
Evil Speaking.
If you'must speak ill of your neigh
bor, do it where only a mean man will
hear it that is, when nobody is
around but yourself.
Shortsighted Policy.
Locking the heart against the drafts'
of sympathy is the swiftest way of
Impoverishing the whole life.
Do Good. ,
' When' in Rome do as Rome does
not want you to do. Do as .Rome
ought to do, or. as right requires.
Pray Without Ceasing.
Prayer continues in the desire of
the heart, though the -mind be busied,
with outward things.
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at All ThuM a UvaMa.
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What to do with the liviag room la
a- problem that confronts every homm
keeper. The liviac room shoaM ha
im fact as well aa ia name a liviac
room a livable room. It is the room
ta which -the most of our time-, at
home Is spent, taa hours wa haw for
leisure, ,Jha time-.we have-for f)ay,:
the' place" where we entertain, ear
Meads and tt Is absolutely ejaotlal
taat'the walls and furalshiags of tha
living room should be,harmoaioas 1
color, suitable in texture, aad darabla
ia material.
The rich,. soft, solid colored walls
are the ideal walla .for the liviac
rooms: They make better back
ground for pictures, throw the furni
ture out in better relief, are less dis
cordant with rugscand carpeting, aad
indicate a higher degree of taste aad
culture than do the scoIored mon
strosities which we paste on when wa
apply wall paper.
Who ever saw roses climbing up a
plastered wall growing out o a hard
wood floor? Yet. that is what we
suggest to the imagination when wa
paste paper covered with roses oa
our walls. They are neither artlstio
nor true. Roses are all very beauti
ful, but they were never made to
climb up interior walls and they do
not grow from hardwood flooring.
The set figures of wall paper are also
tiresome and equally disagreeable and
repellant
The alabastlned wall is the only
correct form of a tinted or solid col
ored wall. Fortunately It Is the only
clean way. and more fortunately it la
the only permanent way; the oaly
way that does not involve the ead
less labor In the future.
In lighting the walls soma thought
must be given the color. Light colors
reflect 85 of the light thrown upoa
them. Dark colors reflect but -15.
Lighting bills can be saved by chops
Ins a color which will reflect tha
largest degree of light. In north
rooms use warm colors or colore
which reflect light In south aad
west rooms sometimes the light can,
be modified by the use of darker .
colors. Dark greens absorb the light; .
light yellows reflect it; browns mod
ify it and so on. through the scale
of colors. The color scheme of a
rcom not only is dependent upon the
color of -the carpeting but it is also
dependent upon the light of the roena.
TOOK TIME.
A Scotsman, having hired himself
to a farmer, had a cheese set' before
him that he might help himself. After
some time, the master said to him:
"Sandy, you take a long time to
breakfast."
"In truth, master." said Sandy.1, "a
cheese o' this size is na saesoon eaten.
as you may thjnk." . !
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Maintaining His Dignity.
Even the elevator boy had to draw
the line somewhere, to prevent bis
being made too common. A writer
in the New York Evening Post tells
of a recent experience with one of the
fraternity.
"If any one calls, Percy, while I am
out. tell him to wait I shall be right
back," she said to the apartment
house elevator boy.
There was no answer.
"Did you hear me? Why don't yoa
answer?" asked the woman, with
some heat.
"I never answers, ma'am, unless I
doesn't hear, and then I says
What?'"
8horten the Agony.
"Say!" growled the man in the
chair, "hurry up and get through shav
ing me."
"Why," replied the barber, "yoa
said you had plenty of time."
"I know, but that was before yoa
began to use that razor." Philadel
phia Press.
COFFEE EYES.
It Acts Slowly But Frequently Pro
duces Blindni
The curious effect of slow daily poi
soning and the gradual building in of
disease as a result, is shown in num
bers of cases where the eyes are af
fected by coffee.
A case In point will Illustrate:
A lady in Oswego, Mont, experi
enced a slow but sure disease settling
upon her eyes In the form of increas
ing weakness and shooting pains
with wavy, dancing lines of light, so
vivid that nothing else could be seen
for minutes at a time.
She says:
"This gradual failure of sight
alarmed me and I naturally began a
very earnest quest for the cause.
About this time I was told that cof
fee poisoning sometimes took that
form, and while I didn't believe that
coffee was the cause of my trouble, I
concluded to quit it and see.
"I took up Po3tum Food Coffee la
spite of the jokes of Husband whose
experience with one cup at a neigh
bor's was . unsatisfactory. Well, I
made Postum strictly according to di
rections, boiling it a little longer, be
cause of our high altitude. The result
was charming. I have now used Pos
tum in place of coffee for about 3
months and my eyes are well, never
paining me or showing any weakness.
I know to a certainty that the cause
of the trouble was coffee and the care
was in quitting it and building up the
nervous system on Postum, for that
was absolutely the only change I made
In diet and I took no medicine.
"My nursing baby has been kept la
a perfectly healthy state siace I have
ased Postum.
"Mr. , a friend, discarded cof
fee dnd took on Postum to see if he
could bo rid of bis dyspepsia and fre
quent headaches. The change
daced a moat remarkable
meat jqaickly."
"There's a Reasoa." Name clvea Ta
Postum Co. Battle Creek. Mich.
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